I never understood why everyone hated GFWL so much. It never caused any issues for me with the games that I had that used it (Halo 2, Gears of War, can't remember what else). And they don't require gold to play multiplayer. Why do you all hate it so much?

Well the GFWL client crashed whilst I was playing Bioshock 2. It hosed my configuration data and corrupted all of my save files. And even when that didn't happen I got a lot of server drops, and I just found the matchmaking system to be poor (I was constantly being dropped into completely empty servers whilst searching for online games)

Specifics please. People just say pain in the but. How? It just brings a menu up when I press the home key that lets me see achievements and do a private chat with another LIVE user.

I know on my old connection (which obviously wasn't great, but it worked) the patch downloads died on large patches and there's no resume, so that ****ed me off. And if I'd moved the folder I had to do some general ****ery to install the patch.

I didn't care, otherwise. It was just there.

It just seemed like they got everything working and forgot to actually make it user friendly.

I think GFWL is dead. I've noticed lately games that had GFWL in the past don't have GFWL in the sequels. Fallout, Dirt, Bioshock, Blacklight, Kane & Lynch, Red Faction to name a few. Personally, I liked GFWL because of the achievements added to your gamerscore.

I think GFWL is dead. I've noticed lately games that had GFWL in the past don't have GFWL in the sequels. Fallout, Dirt, Bioshock, Blacklight, Kane & Lynch, Red Faction to name a few. Personally, I liked GFWL because of the achievements added to your gamerscore.

GFWL is dying because it keeps ruining the reviews of otherwise great PC games.